Mexico says truck driver had marijuana as cargo

TIJUANA  A tractor-trailer driver hauling onions between Mazatlan and Tijuana was also carrying a hidden cargo of nearly 23,000 pounds of marijuana, the Mexican military announced yesterday.

The drugs were seized on the highway between Mexicali and Tijuana at the checkpoint known as El Centinela. The driver was taken into custody and turned over to law enforcement authorities, according a military communiqué. It did not say when the arrest occurred.

The 5,114 seized marijuana packages are worth about $4.7 million, the military reported. –S.D.